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On 06/12/2013 16:19, rusi wrote:
> On Friday, December 6, 2013 9:23:47 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 06/12/2013 15:34, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> (if I remember correctly) I think Mark also
>>
>>> sometimes posts a link to managing Google Groups.
>>
>>>
>>
>> You do, and here it is https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython
>
> That link needs updating.
>
> Even if my almost-automatic correction methods are not considered
> kosher for some reason or other, the thing that needs to go in there
> is that GG has TWO problems
>
> 1. Blank lines
> 2. Long lines
>
> That link only describes 1.
>
> Roy's yesterday's post in "Packaging a proprietary python library"
> says:
>
>> I, and Rusi, know enough, and take the effort, to overcome its
>> shortcomings doesn't change that.
>
> But in fact his post takes care of 1 not 2.
>
> In all fairness I did not know that 2 is a problem until rurpy pointed
> it out recently and was not correcting it. In fact, I'd take the
> trouble to make the lines long assuming that clients were intelligent
> enough to fit it properly into whatever was the current window!!!
>
> So someone please update that page!
>

This is a community so why don't you?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence